FLIR ONE Hive check

The FLIR ONE Generation 2 is a small infrared camera that plugs into a smart phone. 

It can't be beat for checking hives in the winter when you don't want to open them.

As usual, click one to enlarge,

Some of the hives 

Looks like the feral hive in the wall upstairs is also doing well! 

(to the right of the window)

The top bar swarm that moved in.

Useful for finding anything putting out heat. It can even register the output of a single insect.

A honey bee entering the top bar hive.

(the little white spec)

This is an alder bug on the window

Bugs!

Attracted to the sap dripping from holes caused by a sapsucker on the maple tree.

Click on one to get up close and personal.

This fly's head is pretty cool when enlarged.

A shy honey bee. Hard to get a shot of them on these snow drops. They burrow right up into them.

another species.

A close look at a small dung fly. 

Find the varroa mites

Where's Waldo?
Click for a larger view


There are at least three or four.

Some elk , a blacktail, and of course one of my girls.

Took this one from the jeep in the center field. These five  were really curious and kept getting closer until one of the herd called and they all ran back. Click on one for a better look.

White tail

What's going on in the woods above the field in the first photo.

Gotta include one of my girls. The asters are about gone now.

Game cam elk & the obligatory honey bee

Taking her thyme!

Up in the woods above the house. They look pretty healthy. It must be all the veggies and apples they ate from our garden the last couple of weeks. I see the camera still reads a month off. I thought I reset it.

For the honey bee lovers - Even more bees on asters.

Lots better larger, so go ahead, click on one. Thanks for looking!

More bees on the asters and a hover fly

Please click on one for best effect

Fly pretending to be a bee

A couple of today's bees

These look better enlarged with a click.

This little bee is a male Agapostemon. Looks kind of like a wasp.

One of the girls being symmetrical..